30 Jun
2012
30 Jun
'12
9:24 a.m.
On 30 Jun 2012 at 9:37, Jochen Kunz wrote:
I'd use NetBSD instead of Linux. Cross building
NetBSD (kernel and
complete user land) on any POSIX platform is a piece of cake. The
kernel code is much nicer to work on, the code more readable, better
organized and multi architecture support is well implemented, as its
one of NetBSD design goals. Also NetBSD tends to support many older
machines that Linux abandoned. (sun4c, e.g.) --
Good point. 2.11BSD is also a good base for very small systems. I
see that a version has been created for the PIC32 that's pretty
minimal:
http://code.google.com/p/retrobsd/
--Chuck